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Sunday, August 28, 2011

MUSICAL OF THE MONTH: Humpty Dumpty (1868) by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

Within the world of music theater there are many sub-genres--pop opera, juke-box musical, concept musical, and so on--that go in and out of style as generations transition and audience taste…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:54AM

Friday, July 8, 2011

Musical of the Month: Florodora by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

For July’s Musical of the Month, we take a summer vacation to a tropical island in the Philippines: a place where the scent of a native flower perfumes the air and provides both the pl…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 01:38PM

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Musical of the Month: Black Crook Archives by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

As the month of June draws to a close, it's time to leave The Black Crook and move on to a new Musical of the Month. Before I do, though, I want to take a minute to let those who may have …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:42AM

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Musical of the Month: The Music of the Black Crook by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

This is the second in a series of posts about the 1866 proto-musical, The Black Crook. See my first post in the series for additional background on the show Very little is known about …

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:43AM

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Musical of the Month: The Black Crook by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

Most musical theater history books cautiously locate the birth of the American Musical at Niblo's Garden (a theater once located on Prince Street) on September 12, 1866 at the opening of The…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 07:42AM

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Announcing: Musical of the Month by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, my favorite part of the week was visiting the Florissant Valley Public Library and checking out cast recordings. I remember flipping through the bins of LP…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:36AM

Monday, May 2, 2011

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

In William Butler Yeats' poem "Among School Children" the poet famously asks "How can we know the dancer from the dance"? Many interpret this line as an observation…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 10:19AM

Friday, April 22, 2011

"No Day But Today": A look at Jonathan Larson's Word Files by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

In my last post I discussed the urgent problem of preserving "born digital" collections (that is, creative drafts produced using a computer rather than paper and pencil), and the v…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 11:36AM

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Howard Ashman and Our Digital Future by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

The Performing Arts Library has an amazing collection of manuscript and typewritten drafts from some of the greatest writers and musicians in the world. The processes that led to groun…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:29AM

Monday, April 4, 2011

What is a Digital Curator? by Doug Reside, Digital Curator Of Performing Arts, Library For The Performing Arts

Allow me to introduce myself — my name is Doug Reside, and in February I became the first Digital Curator for the Performing Arts at The New York Public Library. The position…

SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 09:11AM

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